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Despite predictions of their demise, college textbooks aren't going away

  • Written by Norm Friesen, Professor, Boise State University
While textbooks have been said to be on their way, they are still a mainstay in higher education.SayHope/www.shutterstock.com

The textbook has been declared dead many times over. Progressive educator John Dewey decried the “text-book fetish” back in the 1890s. Former U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan wished out loud for textbooks to...

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Child pornography may make a comeback after court ruling guts regulations protecting minors

  • Written by Gail Dines, Professor Emerita of Sociology and Women's Studies, CEO of Culture Reframed, Wheelock College

A federal appeals court judge just made it a lot easier for the pornography industry to abuse and exploit children for profit.

The Aug. 3 legal decision, which has received far less media attention than it deserves, represents the most significant blow to opponents of child porn in decades. We believe it could lead to a sharp increase in the...

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Trump's coal plan – neither clean nor affordable

  • Written by Daniel Fiorino, Director of the Center for Environmental Policy, American University School of Public Affairs
Rather than fade into the night, coal plants could stick around longer under Trump's proposal.Duke Energy, CC BY-NC-ND

Is climate change a problem? Consider the evidence: wildfires in California, Sweden and Siberia; flooding in coastal areas due to sea level rise; droughts in some places and extreme weather and rainfall in others; new and emerging...

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For some Catholics, it is demons that taunt priests with sexual desire

  • Written by Elizabeth McAlister, Professor of Religion, Wesleyan University
Pennsylvania grand jury accused Cardinal Wuerl of helping to protect abusive priests when he was Pittsburgh's bishopAP Photo/Kevin Wolf

A Pennsylvania grand jury recently released a report on the systematic ways Catholic priests aided and abetted one another to sexually abuse children for 70 years.

It reveals once again how the strict patriarchal...

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Could college textbooks soon get cheaper?

  • Written by Jenny Adams, Associate Professor of English, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Just as the printing press made books more affordable, technology could do the same thing for college textbooks today.ju_see/www.shutterstock.com

How much money do students spend on college textbooks? The answer is: too much.

Since 1982, the price of new textbooks has tripled even after taking inflation into account. Since 2006, it has outstripped...

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Would you eat 'meat' from a lab? Consumers aren't necessarily sold on 'cultured meat'

  • Written by Walter Johnson, JD Candidate, Arizona State University
Interested in a juicy burger grown in the lab?Oliver Sjöström/Unsplash, CC BY

It’s been a busy summer for food-based biotech. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration made headlines when it approved the plant-based “Impossible Burger,” which relies on an ingredient from genetically modified yeast for its meaty taste. The...

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Today’s GOP leaders have little in common with those who resisted Nixon

  • Written by Michael Koncewicz, Assistant Research Scholar, New York University
Atty. Gen. Elliot Richardson swears in William D. Ruckelshaus as his deputy. Both men later resigned rather than carry out Nixon's order to fire the Watergate special prosecutor.AP/John Duricka

Republican leaders in 2018 are profoundly different than the ones who dealt with Watergate in the 1970s.

During Watergate, a significant number of GOP...

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¿Qué tan decisivo será el 'voto latino' anti-Trump en las elecciones intermedias de EEUU?

  • Written by Steffen W. Schmidt, Lucken Endowed Professor of Political Science, Iowa State University
Los latinos constituyen el 12 por ciento de las personas elegibles para votar en las elecciones legislativas de medio mandato del 2018.Flickr/Erik Hersman, CC BY-SA, CC BY

El Partido Demócrata no debería contar con que los latinos le den un viraje a las elecciones legislativas de medio mandato este año.

Aproximadamente 27,3...

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An alternative to propping up coal power plants: Retrain workers for solar

  • Written by Joshua M. Pearce, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan Technological University
The number of coal mining jobs has gone up slightly, but many times less than solar-related ones.AP Photo/Dake Kang

The Trump administration announced new pollution rules for coal-fired power plantsdesigned to keep existing coal power plants operating more and save American coal mining jobs.

Profitability for U.S. coal power plants has plummeted,...

Read more: An alternative to propping up coal power plants: Retrain workers for solar

What makes some species more likely to go extinct?

  • Written by Luke Strotz, Post-doctoral Researcher in Invertebrate Paleontology, University of Kansas
Dinosaurs had some bad luck, but sooner or later extinction comes for all of us.rawpixel/Unsplash.com, CC BY

Though they say “‘tis impossible to be sure of anything but death and taxes,” a bit of financial chicanery may get you out of paying the taxman. But no amount of trickery will stop the inevitability of death. Death is the...

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